Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abstract -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Theoretical foundations -- 1. Types of meaning and the semantics-pragmatics interface -- 2. Conceptual and procedural meaning: lexical and non-lexical pragmatics -- Part II: Time and tenses -- 3. Temporal reference and temporal order -- 4. Directional inferences: A conceptual/procedural approach to tenses -- Part III: Causality -- 5. Causality, temporal order and argumentation -- 6. Causal connectives, conceptual and procedural meanings -- Part IV: Logical words -- 7. Logical connectives and pragmatic meaning -- 8. Descriptive and metalinguistic negation -- Conclusion: How much is meaning conventional? -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index